[QUOTE=Ed Wright;114781][QUOTE=Michael Beard;114686]Car count is a self-fulfilling prophecy... if everybody showed up, there would be a lot of cars.
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Yep, that is correct. Why the SS cars don't show (At least for the 1/4 mile races), I have no idea. I realize lot of the stocker guys hate the crate motors. I don't have a dog in that fight, so don't care.
Yep, they ask me to remove it. the reason I was given was they have had too many of them come loose when a car flips, bounces around inside, and beats the driver up pretty badly. Therefore they took them back out of the rule book years ago. (NHRA used to run them, I was told. Must have been either while I ran a sprint car, or while I was "retired" from racing.) The tech official said if they were mounted so you could get it out in a hurry, they weren't secure enough to stay put if the car flipped. I could have one if it were permantely mounted with tubing and nozzles where needed. I can see how it could happen. I now put it in for IHRA, store it in the trailer for NHRA. No big deal either way.
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Ed,
About 10 to 15 years ago a late model Firebird running in Stock had the fire extinguisher blow up and launch itself through the rear glass and land on another car about 100 feet away......it was filled with NOS! He received a lifetime suspension but I wonder if THAT had anything to do with the ban on extinguishers?
JimR